Life has become the future.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.

Keep your head high and your skirt down.

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

The French debt will remain massive. Savings should be made with cuts to the generous social system, which grants illegal immigrants the same protections as it does our citizens.

Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the people you've been.

I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this.

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.